Born on 12 January 1884 in Waco, Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan played a gun-slinger and rode bareback in silent films, took New York by storm in 1906, and earned a salary of $700,000 as a speakeasy hostess. Here are highlights from a life led at full speed until 5 November 1933. Meet TEXAS GUINAN!

Friday, October 21, 2005

Give a Little Girl a Big Handcuff

This article was published in The Villager:From activists and authors to madams and madwomen: The prisoners of Sixth AvenueBy LindaAnn Loschiavo

Hollywood is embracing an armful of women’s history attached to the crooked elbow of W. 10th St. west of Sixth Ave. In April, “House of D” by David Duchovny commemorated the Women’s House of Detention, which overlooked Village Square (now Ruth Wittenberg Triangle) until the prison was razed in 1973. A movie musical “Hello, Sucker” due out this year revisits the same location during the 1920s with Madonna as diamond-draped “Texas” Guinan, a Village resident and rodeo queen whose speakeasies landed her behind bars at Jefferson Market Jail. Sandwiched between those two premieres, the 30th anniversary of a garden established on that very site was celebrated this April. . . .http://www.thevillager.com/villager_129/fromactivistandauthors.html- - continued at www.TheVillager.com - -Source: http://jeffersonmarketcourthouseny.blogspot.com/atom.xmlSource: http://TexasGuinan.blogspot.com/atom.xmlTexas Guinan